Task Group Six was an interagency working group for members of the
National Security Council on the problem of intelligence compromises. As
a result of its study, it made a number of recommendations to improve
security and reduce the likelihood of insider threats - changing the way
the intelligence agencies did business by putting a natural limit on
the scope of their activities. If these policies had been pursued, it’s
unlikely that Snowden would have had the justification or the ability to
leak the materials he did. Instead, the recommendations that would have
seen an actual shift in the status quo were ignored....[weiter]...